Thursday, April 09, 2015

Mark Steyn Trashes Pink Shirt Day

When you shrink from punishing the bullies (as our schools do), when you pursue phantom enemies (as our “human rights” nomenklatura do), when you use the victims as a pretext for ideological advancement (as the Ontario government is doing), all that’s left is the creepy, soft totalitarian, collectivized, state-enforced, glassy-eyed homogeneity of “uniting to celebrate diversity” (in Peggy Nash’s words). So Canada will have GSAs from Niagara to Nunavut; and for the lonely and unsocial, the lumpy and awkward, real bullying will proceed undisturbed in the shadows; and ideologically-compliant faux-bullying will explode,as a generation of children is conscripted into a youth corps of eternal victimhood, alert to every slight, however footling.

UPDATE: Of course I didn't bother to read the DATE on this, which is from 2012. Still a good article, though!